pet MTX being equipped is causing sound issues. this can be replicated, started out playing an alcolyt and now playing a rouge, no matter the pet i have equipped the sound will start to degrade just like it did before the sound mute bug was fixed.
over time the sound will get jumbled up overlapping each other making it sound like its under water and crackles. once it gets to this point the lag starts to show up
i have found a fix for this or should i say others did on the this form and other forms. the fix is to unequip your pet MTX restart the game, this fixes the issue as well as prefermence as in lag. and not use pet MTX fixes this
with doing this fix and not having pet MTX on sound is normal wont degrade nor do i run into the lag issue that follows after the sound goes to complete crap
iv also submited and in game bug report as well as my wife we both have been able to replicate this bug. she also started with an alcolyt and is now doing a beast master still same issue with sound. will say niether of us have tested specific pet MTX to see if its specific ones doing it. at first we thought it was just specific to the acolyt class, turns out its not just class specific issue
i will say the spider on the ball pet from digging into this sound issue before the fix seems to be one that is causing the sound problom